Overview

• Thirteen percent of public-sector employees report direct online insults, threats or defamation at work, according to a Forsa poll for the DGB.
• About one in three say they have witnessed colleagues being attacked on the internet.
• Nearly a third fear becoming targets via email or social networks.
• Almost two-thirds report no defined workplace procedure for handling such cases, and most victims neither preserve evidence nor contact police.
• Incidents are described as routine across police, regulatory and social offices, jobcenters, schools, hospitals and public transport, and a separate dbb survey found 30% of citizens have witnessed attacks on public employees.